Using Deming cycle for strengthening cooperation between industry and university in IT engineering education program

European Qualification Framework (EQF) forces universities to strengthen the cooperation with industry. Although EQF guidelines were introduced as obligatory into Polish educational system this year, Lublin University of Technology (LUT) had opportunity to implement EQF outlines into educational program earlier, especially in area of cooperation with industry, thanks to educational project for reengineering of second level degree program in Computer Science. To improve the quality of the established cooperation and thus to strengthen it the Deming cycle was used. The paper presents the evaluation of LUT cooperation with industry made after the project. It also discusses gained experience. The main study method was the survey conducted among industry representatives. The survey was focused on three groups of ICT company employers: internships supervisors, MSc thesis industry consultants and high technical managers. The conclusions in research and the plan of those implementation to improve the cooperation between ICT industry and LUT in the Computer Science education field are presented as well.